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Old 07-16-2008, 03:56 AM   #1
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Server requirements, will this work???

Currently I have a VPS with 852 megs of memory, root access and 30 gigs free harddrive space. On average the server has 317 megs free memory. The operating system is Linux, CentOS I think. According to Vbulletin server loads, the server is running at an average of 0.63, 0.58 and 0.49%.



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Last login: Fri May 23 21:29:14 2008
root@server [~]# top
top - 22:40:24 up 66 days, 7:54, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 0.53, 0.45
Tasks: 105 total, 1 running, 102 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.2% sy, 0.4% ni, 99.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 851968k total, 534520k used, 317448k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
Is this enough to run a 16 slot dedicated server?

Right now I am running all of this on the server:
2 VBulletin forums and one SMF forum for Yoda.
2 wordpress sites
and 1 basic HTML site.

The server gets 650.0 GB of throughput a month. Out of that, all of the sites combined use about a gig a day.
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Old 07-16-2008, 04:16 AM   #2
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It's been our experience that web servers on game boxes cause considerable lag spikes, I wouldn't run them in the same place.

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Old 07-16-2008, 11:25 AM   #3
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SRCDS is ALL about CPU. What's the processor in the box?
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Old 07-16-2008, 01:39 PM   #4
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SRCDS is ALL about CPU. What's the processor in the box?
I dont remember the exact CPU specs, so I sent an email to tech support. When they send a reply I will get it posted.

Instead of 16 players, how about a 12 or 14 player server?

Back in the days of quakeworld, server admins knew that players took up exactly X amount of memory. I think it was like 2 - 3 megs for every player that was connected. This helped admins get an idea of how much memory the server needed. But then again, back in those days memory was $2 a meg.

I know you said its all about the CPU, but surely the mod takes "some" memory? If so, how much are we talking about?

Over the past few months I have been thinking of upgrading my hosting package to a gig of memory, more HD space an more bandwidth limits. This would only be about $15 more a month. Currently, one of my forums gets 1.4+ million page views a month. I would rather have the resources there "before" I need them.

So I need to take the game server into consideration before I upgrade the hosting package.


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It's been our experience that web servers on game boxes cause considerable lag spikes, I wouldn't run them in the same place.
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What kind of servers are yall running? I know one community with a website and 4 (tf2, 2Xtfc, CS:S) servers. But he has about 4 gigs of memory and top of the line Intel processors on a dedicated box.
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Old 07-16-2008, 02:12 PM   #5
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This is the reply I got back from Tech support.

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Your VPS has 832MB SLM RAM with 40GB Disk Space.

The node has Dual Processor/Quad Core (8CPU) harpertown servers with 16GB ram and 15K SAS drives in raid 5 and raid 10 arrays with hot-spare drives. All servers also feature redundant power supplies in the event one of the PSUs fails.
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Old 07-17-2008, 05:10 AM   #6
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TIAS (Try It And See).

Although I wouldn't without more ram.
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Old 07-18-2008, 05:03 AM   #7
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VPS? as in Virtual Private Server?
I don't think you can run a SRCDS off of a Virtual Server. But if you already have the server, give it a try.

RAM wise, it doesn't take much. The head guy at SRCDS.com has run like 4 or 5 servers of a box at once with a gig of ram.
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